This weekend, co-vocabularists are invited to create necessary neologisms by monkeying with prefixes and suffixes.I was gruntled once. I bought an ointment and it went away.
For example:
Why, when one can be overwhelmed and underwhelmed, cannot one be whelmed?Surely, unsubtle innuendo is outuendo, and innuendo that goes too far is innuendon’t.Is one who hates all married women a mrsanthrope?And, how many of us have ever been gruntled?
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Have you ever been gruntled?
Ben Schott runs a blog at The New York Times dedicated to new words. Here's his weekend competition:
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